The 7 Best Freeware Miscellaneous Music Tools Source: Music Tech Magazine In this final freeware roundup we’ve got a couple of useful vocal plugins and freeware that we could find no category for, but is still worthy of inclusion… Vocov Software – vocoder Vocoding is that robot vocal effect you get in tracks both old […]
Cakewalk – Rapture Pro Out this week is the latest instalment from Cakewalk; Rapture Pro. This new synth combines sample-based synthesis with oscillators and effects, with intuitive modulations to create a truly unique sound. To top it off, one of the sound-designers creating its factory content was our very own Dom Kane, who says “Rapture Pro […]
So once again, we’re approaching Dynamic Range Day; a campaign started by mastering engineer Ian Shepherd to raise awareness of the Loudness War to all producers, studio engineers, and mix/master engineers. The idea behind the campaign is to try and get us all to really think about whether we really want the dynamics squashed out of […]
So another couple of weeks later, and I finally have a small but functional control room set up (kind of)! As you can see, it’s a fairly small room to start, but due to it being winter and the building being poorly insulated, my initial designs allow me to get a working control room with […]
So as a few of you will already know, I’m an avid user of Quora and I was recently asked if I thought it was worthwhile in doing university/educational music courses. I thought it was a good question with no definitive answer, but I do get asked it a fair bit, so here’s my response: Thanks […]
So it’s been a couple weeks since my last post, and the building has come on leaps and bounds! After I’d designed the initial building layout, it was really just a case of researching the different building materials, working out how to build walls, and then just ordering the parts. Something worth noting here, as […]
I’m seeing more and more DJs and Producers giving away free music downloads these days. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter… Obviously, it’s totally up to the artist on whether they want to give their music away for free, (I’ve done it myself a few times), but I think we all need […]
So… Ableton Live 9 has been announced this week, and while I’m personally looking forward to the new features, there’s been an issue discussed time and time again around the forums, regarding latency/delay issues with automation… So what’s the issue? Well actually, there are two issues, which are somewhat related to each other. Firstly, open […]
I was recently asked for some advice by someone about what they should have in their master channel while they produce. They had asked several other producers, who had unfortunately given them conflicting suggestions. Some people had apparently said it was a good idea to have compressors and limiters from the start, and others had […]